On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 09:37 +0100, Måns Nilsson wrote: > Subject: Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers Date: Mon, Jan > 28, 2013 at 08:45:39PM +0400 Quoting Mukom Akong T. (mukom.ta...@gmail.com): > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Eugeniu Patrascu <eu...@imacandi.net>wrote: > > > > Does an L2 switch really care about IPv6? (except for stuff like DHCPv6 > > snooping, etc?) > > For management it does care. NO ipv4 is NO ipv4. As in not even > management addresses.
Also, if a switch does not do MLD snooping, it will flood multicast to all ports. You lose one of the major benefits of IPv6 multicast - less admin traffic. You need to spec new switches with IPv6 capability. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://www.biplane.com.au/blog GPG fingerprint: B862 FB15 FE96 4961 BC62 1A40 6239 1208 9865 5F9A Old fingerprint: AE1D 4868 6420 AD9A A698 5251 1699 7B78 4EEE 6017